The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy and the American VoiceFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007 M08 21 - 336 pages From the author of Mystery Train and Lipstick Traces, an exhilarating and provocative investigation of the tangle of American identity |
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... played out most intensely in art : in speech and acts that begin with a single citizen a single imaginary citizen , a character made up by a novelist , a singer , a filmmaker , a performer - saying what he or she has to say , as if ...
... played out in what appear to be smaller theaters , with characters from this or that made - up story now standing for the community , but I think the drama is the same . The country remakes itself 16 THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME.
... plays a president fighting off alien destroyers ) , is a whole city , with walls and towers and brick buildings . At the edge of the city plat- form there is a crowd ; one man in the crowd points to the lone man with the glass . In calm ...
... played out . In 1862 , after the defeat of the Union Army at the Battle of Bull Run , Lincoln wrote what came to be known as " Meditation on the Divine Will " : In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of ...
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Contents
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Philip Roth and the Lost Republic | 41 |
Bill Pullmans Face | 101 |
Sheryl Lee as Laura Palmer | 147 |
David Thomas | 201 |
Kansas | 259 |
Acknowledgments | 305 |